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PUMS for ACS 2007 in AFF
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Subjects in the PUMS

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Subjects in the American Community Survey PUMS

Items in the housing record include: Items in the person record include:
  * Households in which no person, age 14 or over, speaks only English or speaks English very well.
  • Bedrooms
  • Condominium status
  • Contract rent (monthly rent)
  • Cost of utilities and fuels
  • Family income
  • Family, subfamily, and household relationships
  • Farm status and value
  • Fire, hazard, and flood insurance
  • Food Stamps
  • Fuels used
  • Gross rent
  • House heating fuel
  • Household income
  • Household type
  • Kitchen facilities
  • Linguistic isolation*
  • Meals included in rent
  • Mortgage status and selected monthly owner costs
  • Plumbing facilities
  • Presence and age of own children
  • Presence of subfamilies in household
  • Property value
  • Real estate taxes
  • Residence State
  • Rooms
  • Telephone in housing unit
  • Tenure
  • Units in structure
  • Vacancy status
  • Vehicles available
  • Year householder moved into unit
  • Year structure built
  • Ability to speak English
  • Age
  • Ancestry
  • Citizenship
  • Class of worker
  • Disability status
  • Educational attainment
  • Fertility
  • Hispanic origin
  • Hours worked
  • Income by type
  • Industry
  • Language spoken at home
  • Last week work status
  • Marital status
  • Means of transportation to work
  • Migration
  • Military status, periods of active duty military service, veteran period of service
  • Mobility status
  • Occupation
  • Personal care limitation
  • Place of birth
  • Place of work
  • Poverty status
  • Race
  • Relationship
  • School enrollment and type of school
  • Sex
  • Time of departure for work
  • Travel time to work
  • Vehicle occupancy
  • Weeks worked
  • Work status
  • Work limitation status
  • Year of entry
 
Source: U.S. Census Bureau  |  American Community Survey Office  |  Page Last Modified: September 15, 2008